Being In Movement
I'm in Columbus, OH working with Paul Linden Sensei while writing (dissertation) and working (Aiki Extensions). My schedule may be found through Airset.com (if we share a group there) or through my website, by clicking on "Calendar".As I write this I am sitting in Cup O' Joe - Clintonville [2990 N High St Columbus, OH 43202 (614) 447-7563], listening to a Thomas Moore interview (free at New Dimensions for this week), as well as some excellent music at http://www.folkalley.com/music/podcasts/. I am more than happy to recommend all three.
Some things I am working on with Paul:
What is the difference between a timing lag and the timing delay of a whipping motion native to so many martial techniques? To understand this better and more consistently create the effect I want I'm paying attention to how my focus (specifically my conscious purpose and eyes) aren't always "identical"/tracking with my movement but dissociate in some way. Occasionally, behaviors which can be fine, conscious, tactical choices arise from habits based at some level in fear. The dilemma presents in the both unconscious and unhelpful part of the process rather than in simply refining by repetition the conscious applications. This is not Wrong except when movement patterns reflect something I do without being aware of it or in a way that imbalances me accidentally. Like most dilemmas of this sort the question is not simply am I doing an unhelpful thing but, always, how much does it apply in a given moment of consideration.
more on this to come...
Hopefully Unrelated: Please check out http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/15/disney.protesters.ap/index.html
Cinderella, others arrested in Disneyland labor protest
ANAHEIM, California (AP) | posted by Unknown @ 8/27/2008 01:39:00 PM
This year...The Luckiest Day of the Infamous Month...aaaarrrrrhhhhh
Last year it looked something like this...>
This year...
Burn The Briny Brink !!!
Due to the fightin' and drinkin' and faahhhrrther unmentionables planned fer The Day itself, we thought we'd get a run up and start early on the luckiest day save one.
On September 13th
(Not THAT Day!?! Aaaaarrrrrrhhhh!!), Baldrick the Inflammable will put ashore on a San Francisco Bay Area beach (precise location undisclosed to give the buccaneers a fightin' chance) to burn everything within reach and light an unrighteous romp before crisping and devouring various creepy crawlies from The Deep to celebrate the birth (yet again in piratical style since midnight September 19, 1969) of the dark and craven Brandon the Bruiser of Berkeley. All additional alliteration answered with absolute annihilation.
More to come,
Baaahhhldrickh
Last year it looked something like this...>This year...
Burn The Briny Brink !!!
Due to the fightin' and drinkin' and faahhhrrther unmentionables planned fer The Day itself, we thought we'd get a run up and start early on the luckiest day save one.
On September 13th
(Not THAT Day!?! Aaaaarrrrrrhhhh!!), Baldrick the Inflammable will put ashore on a San Francisco Bay Area beach (precise location undisclosed to give the buccaneers a fightin' chance) to burn everything within reach and light an unrighteous romp before crisping and devouring various creepy crawlies from The Deep to celebrate the birth (yet again in piratical style since midnight September 19, 1969) of the dark and craven Brandon the Bruiser of Berkeley. All additional alliteration answered with absolute annihilation.
More to come,
Baaahhhldrickh
Labels: event
| posted by Unknown @ 8/27/2008 09:09:00 AM
We Live Our Stories
"Persia"
In National Geographic Marguerite Del Guidice (Aiki Extensions) opens the reality of Iran living out its history/fiction* in the Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran - National Geographic Magazine
Deepak Chopra would use $100 Billion to circulate transformative stories
from http://www.bigthink.com/philanthropy/408
[video Recorded on: 08/17/07 transcript excerpt] I think $100 billion could be used to just focus on one idea. And that idea is well being – well being of the individual; well being emotionally; well being of our relationships; well being of our businesses; well being of our economy; well being of our ecosystem; and well being of the world at large. It’s a broad term, but it . . . all it means is restoring balance. And if you can think of all the ways that we can harness the collective intelligence and the collective compassion . . . And one of the ways to do that, by the way, is through story telling. There is nothing more transformational than storytelling. So I would create a huge network – information network – which would take everything into account: educational institutions, entertainment, music, news networks, information technologies, the Internet, and saturate this network and these technologies with stories that have the power to transform us.
Had to pull this out of the comments area here and into this more visible post...
Living The Greek/Christ/Wesleyan Mythos
Paula Craig was "incredibly grateful to learn from John Sanford that 'perfection' in the modern sense of 'being totally without fault' is a poor translation of the N.T.Greek word we would understand as 'completion'." She understands that is what John Wesley meant when he said, "We are going on to perfection." "How heavenly," says she, "not to feel partial anymore."
I've always been partial to my Mom, sparkly carrier of the mythos mentioned above, to/in which I am also partial. I suppose I am partial to feeling partial. How delightful, I would like to suggest, it is to feel that being partial creatures and partial to creatures is not un-heavenly. Even defined as completion, perfection is problematic for a naturally (blessedly?) incomplete humanity, by definition stretched during life between the extremes of limited scope and vast capacity.
* In case there is any doubt by fiction I mean the opposite of falsehood. For instance, the literature and resulting imagination that suggest the historical reality that was "Persia" is the only container sufficient to leave room for its truth (beauty, mysteries, dilemmas) and continuing potential to shape the future of a dynamic people. "Fiction" is not a dig. It's my religion.
"Persia"
In National Geographic Marguerite Del Guidice (Aiki Extensions) opens the reality of Iran living out its history/fiction* in the Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran - National Geographic Magazine
Deepak Chopra would use $100 Billion to circulate transformative stories
from http://www.bigthink.com/philanthropy/408
[video Recorded on: 08/17/07 transcript excerpt] I think $100 billion could be used to just focus on one idea. And that idea is well being – well being of the individual; well being emotionally; well being of our relationships; well being of our businesses; well being of our economy; well being of our ecosystem; and well being of the world at large. It’s a broad term, but it . . . all it means is restoring balance. And if you can think of all the ways that we can harness the collective intelligence and the collective compassion . . . And one of the ways to do that, by the way, is through story telling. There is nothing more transformational than storytelling. So I would create a huge network – information network – which would take everything into account: educational institutions, entertainment, music, news networks, information technologies, the Internet, and saturate this network and these technologies with stories that have the power to transform us.
Had to pull this out of the comments area here and into this more visible post...
Living The Greek/Christ/Wesleyan Mythos
Paula Craig was "incredibly grateful to learn from John Sanford that 'perfection' in the modern sense of 'being totally without fault' is a poor translation of the N.T.Greek word we would understand as 'completion'." She understands that is what John Wesley meant when he said, "We are going on to perfection." "How heavenly," says she, "not to feel partial anymore."
I've always been partial to my Mom, sparkly carrier of the mythos mentioned above, to/in which I am also partial. I suppose I am partial to feeling partial. How delightful, I would like to suggest, it is to feel that being partial creatures and partial to creatures is not un-heavenly. Even defined as completion, perfection is problematic for a naturally (blessedly?) incomplete humanity, by definition stretched during life between the extremes of limited scope and vast capacity.
* In case there is any doubt by fiction I mean the opposite of falsehood. For instance, the literature and resulting imagination that suggest the historical reality that was "Persia" is the only container sufficient to leave room for its truth (beauty, mysteries, dilemmas) and continuing potential to shape the future of a dynamic people. "Fiction" is not a dig. It's my religion.
Labels: Iran, media, myth, mythology, Persia, story, transform
| posted by Unknown @ 8/14/2008 08:53:00 AM
